Champlain College
Encyclopedia
Champlain College is a private, coeducation
al college located in Burlington
, Vermont
. It offers professionally focused programs that incorporate an interdisciplinary
core curriculum. In addition to its main campus, the College maintains study-abroad
campuses in Montreal
and Dublin, and offers online programs. Seventy-three percent of students are from out of state. At 1993 undergrad students Champlain is the fifth largest institute of higher education in Vermont, after the University of Vermont
, the Community College of Vermont
, Middlebury College
, and Saint Michael's College
.
programs and enrolled about 60 students.
Champlain College grew over the decades, opening its first dormitories
in 1965, starting new programs in the field of social services in the 1970s, and adding the Hauke Family Campus Center in 1989. The first bachelor's degree
programs were offered in 1991, and online education began in 1993. The College's library, the Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Information Commons, was opened in 1998. In 2002, the College initiated its first master's degree
program.
The S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business & Technology, a new academic facility, opened in 2004, and the IDX Student Life Center was dedicated the following year. Also in 2005, Dr. David F. Finney was inaugurated as the Champlain's seventh president, and the College added a second master's degree to its offerings.
A program to encourage student entrepreneurs, called BYOBiz, was launched in 2006. The next year, the College opened a study-abroad campus in Montreal. In 2008, two new student residences, Lakeview Hall and Adirondack House, opened in Burlington, and a second study-abroad campus opened in Dublin. Later that year, Champlain acquired Woodbury College, which now offers graduate degrees as the Woodbury Institute of Champlain College.
About 60% of the students, 1,100, boarded at the college in 2009-10.
In 2010, Perry Hall was renovated and now houses the Advising and Registration Center, Admissions, Financial Aid, and serves as a general purpose Student Welcome Center.
Starting with the class of 2011, general education is taught in the form of an interdisciplinary core curriculum. Each course brings together 3 or 4 discrete disciplines with the use of various literature and open-ended discussion topics. First-year courses focus on the self, second-year on the community, and third year on global topics. Through courses such as Rhetoric
, Concepts of the Self, and Concepts of Community, students gain a background in the liberal arts
and sciences. Beginning in the fall of 2008, incoming students also participate in an out-of-the-classroom life skills program. This life skills program, called the Life Experience & Action Dimension or LEAD, is part of Champlain's Education in 3-D initiative. LEAD aims to build knowledge in four areas: understanding personality styles, building inclusive community, lifelong career management, and financial sophistication. This knowledge is intended to enable students to adapt to changing environments, make good decisions in difficult situations, and pursue short and long-term goals successfully. LEAD requirements are completed outside of class in groups led by student Peer Advisers. The groups are established based on where they live on campus (commuters are in a group of their own). Completion of the LEAD activities is required in order for students to register for their classes the next semester.
One part of the Core is the Global Module. The Global Module is a discussion forum where students from Champlain College communicate with students from other countries around the world. The module features a guided discussion that focuses on important issues and gives students a perspective from outside the country. The Global Module is required for all students in the Core program.
U.S. News America's Best Colleges 2009 ranks Champlain College 12th among baccalaureate colleges in the North.
The Princeton Review includes Champlain College in its The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition.
Students may create an individual experience abroad.
Champlain's campus consists of 42 buildings on about 2.5 city blocks in the residential Hill Section of Burlington, Vermont. Most of the student residence halls are renovated Victorian-era
houses. Aside from Victorian style residence halls, Champlain College also offers Transitional Housing. These are apartment style suites with four bedrooms per suite. A shuttle is available to the campus. In 2008, Champlain opened its newest residence, Lakeview Hall, housing approximately 80 students. About 750 students reside on campus, others occupy off-campus college housing, and many live independently. There are 22 residence halls.
The IDX
Student Life Center has the dining hall, gym, and fitness center. Students also spend time in its lounge and game room.
Academic buildings include the Hauke Family Campus Center, the S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business & Technology, and the Miller Information Commons. Facilities available include 3D
animation and game production labs, multimedia
classrooms and editing suites, and a photo lab and darkroom
.
Champlain College is looking to open another campus abroad, but there is no information on where the next Champlain campus may be.
There are a variety of intramural sports including Basketball, Dodgeball, Golf, Floor Hockey , Ice Hockey, Flag Football, Lacrosse, Soccer, Table Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, Wiffleball, Volleyball, XC/Road Racing, and Quidditch
as well as Men's Division IV
and Women's Intercollegiate Rugby.
The Center for Service and Civic Engagement is a community service and civic engagement based club that participates in a number of activities such as Tent City (a fundraiser to raise homeless awareness and money for COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter), and the DREAM program (a mentoring program for underprivileged children).
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
al college located in Burlington
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....
, Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
. It offers professionally focused programs that incorporate an interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....
core curriculum. In addition to its main campus, the College maintains study-abroad
Study abroad
Studying abroad is the act of a student pursuing educational opportunities in a country other than one's own. This can include primary, secondary and post-secondary students...
campuses in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
and Dublin, and offers online programs. Seventy-three percent of students are from out of state. At 1993 undergrad students Champlain is the fifth largest institute of higher education in Vermont, after the University of Vermont
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
, the Community College of Vermont
Community College of Vermont
The Community College of Vermont is a two year college founded in 1970 with locations in 12 sites in the state of Vermont. The college is a part of the Vermont State Colleges, a consortium of Vermont's five public colleges governed by a common board of trustees, chancellor, and Council of...
, Middlebury College
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...
, and Saint Michael's College
Saint Michael's College
Saint Michael's College is a private, residential liberal arts Catholic college. The campus is located in Colchester, Vermont. It was founded in 1904 by the Society of Saint Edmund, a French order of Catholic priests.-History:...
.
History
Founded as Burlington Collegiate Institute by G.W. Thompson in 1878, a series of acquisitions changed the College's name and location multiple times. It was renamed Burlington Business College in 1884, moved to Bank Street in 1905, and relocated to Main Street in 1910. In 1958, the College took its current name and moved to Hill Section of Burlington, where it remains today. That year, it offered associate's degreeAssociate's degree
An associate degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years...
programs and enrolled about 60 students.
Champlain College grew over the decades, opening its first dormitories
Dormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
in 1965, starting new programs in the field of social services in the 1970s, and adding the Hauke Family Campus Center in 1989. The first bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
programs were offered in 1991, and online education began in 1993. The College's library, the Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Information Commons, was opened in 1998. In 2002, the College initiated its first master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
program.
The S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business & Technology, a new academic facility, opened in 2004, and the IDX Student Life Center was dedicated the following year. Also in 2005, Dr. David F. Finney was inaugurated as the Champlain's seventh president, and the College added a second master's degree to its offerings.
A program to encourage student entrepreneurs, called BYOBiz, was launched in 2006. The next year, the College opened a study-abroad campus in Montreal. In 2008, two new student residences, Lakeview Hall and Adirondack House, opened in Burlington, and a second study-abroad campus opened in Dublin. Later that year, Champlain acquired Woodbury College, which now offers graduate degrees as the Woodbury Institute of Champlain College.
About 60% of the students, 1,100, boarded at the college in 2009-10.
In 2010, Perry Hall was renovated and now houses the Advising and Registration Center, Admissions, Financial Aid, and serves as a general purpose Student Welcome Center.
Presidents
- G.W. Thompson (1878–1883)
- E. George Evans (1884–1919)
- A. Gordon Tittemore (1920–1955)
- C. Bader Brouilette (1956–1976)
- Dr. Robert A. Skiff (1977–1991)
- Dr. Roger H. Perry (1992–2004)
- Dr. David F. Finney(2005–present)
Academics
Champlain College's "Upside Down Curriculum" allows students to take in-depth courses in their major starting in the first semester.Undergraduate education
Champlain issues bachelor's degrees in over 30 fields of study, ranging from Computer & Digital Forensics to Radiography. Some of the most popular undergraduate programs include Business, Graphic Design, and Electronic Game Programming.Starting with the class of 2011, general education is taught in the form of an interdisciplinary core curriculum. Each course brings together 3 or 4 discrete disciplines with the use of various literature and open-ended discussion topics. First-year courses focus on the self, second-year on the community, and third year on global topics. Through courses such as Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...
, Concepts of the Self, and Concepts of Community, students gain a background in the liberal arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
and sciences. Beginning in the fall of 2008, incoming students also participate in an out-of-the-classroom life skills program. This life skills program, called the Life Experience & Action Dimension or LEAD, is part of Champlain's Education in 3-D initiative. LEAD aims to build knowledge in four areas: understanding personality styles, building inclusive community, lifelong career management, and financial sophistication. This knowledge is intended to enable students to adapt to changing environments, make good decisions in difficult situations, and pursue short and long-term goals successfully. LEAD requirements are completed outside of class in groups led by student Peer Advisers. The groups are established based on where they live on campus (commuters are in a group of their own). Completion of the LEAD activities is required in order for students to register for their classes the next semester.
One part of the Core is the Global Module. The Global Module is a discussion forum where students from Champlain College communicate with students from other countries around the world. The module features a guided discussion that focuses on important issues and gives students a perspective from outside the country. The Global Module is required for all students in the Core program.
U.S. News America's Best Colleges 2009 ranks Champlain College 12th among baccalaureate colleges in the North.
The Princeton Review includes Champlain College in its The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition.
Online programs
The college also offers a variety of programs online. Some associate's and bachelor's degrees, as well as certificates, can be obtained through online courses. Champlain offers four (soon to be 6) master's degrees, which heavily incorporate online learning. In 2009, OEDb ranked the college third out of 44 institutions that offer most of their degree programs online.Programs Abroad
The Champlain Abroad campuses in Montreal and Dublin provide students with personal and professional experiences that will extend their sense of self and their place in the global community. The Champlain Abroad programs provide students from Champlain College and other higher education institutions in the United States, an opportunity to explore, immerse, and engage in Canadian or Irish culture through a curriculum that extends beyond the classroom walls and takes students into the community and culture.Students may create an individual experience abroad.
Campus
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
houses. Aside from Victorian style residence halls, Champlain College also offers Transitional Housing. These are apartment style suites with four bedrooms per suite. A shuttle is available to the campus. In 2008, Champlain opened its newest residence, Lakeview Hall, housing approximately 80 students. About 750 students reside on campus, others occupy off-campus college housing, and many live independently. There are 22 residence halls.
The IDX
IDX Systems
IDX Systems Corporation was a healthcare software technology company that formerly had headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont, United States. It was founded in 1969 by Robert Hoehl, Richard Tarrant, and Paul Egerman...
Student Life Center has the dining hall, gym, and fitness center. Students also spend time in its lounge and game room.
Academic buildings include the Hauke Family Campus Center, the S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business & Technology, and the Miller Information Commons. Facilities available include 3D
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...
animation and game production labs, multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
classrooms and editing suites, and a photo lab and darkroom
Darkroom
A darkroom is a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive photographic materials, including photographic film and photographic paper. Darkrooms have been created and used since the inception of photography in the early 19th century...
.
International campuses
Champlain students have the opportunity to study abroad at the College's international campuses.- Montreal, Canada: Champlain College of Vermont opened in the fall of 2007. Facilities include classrooms, a lab, student lounge, and kitchen. Student housing is provided by the Université du Québec à MontréalUniversité du Québec à MontréalThe Université du Québec à Montréal is one of four universities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Basic facts:The UQAM is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec , a public university system with other branches in Gatineau , Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, and...
.
- Dublin, Ireland: Champlain College Dublin Centre opened in the fall of 2008. The Academic Center contains classrooms, a computer lab, and lounge, with residency nearby.
Champlain College is looking to open another campus abroad, but there is no information on where the next Champlain campus may be.
Student Activities
There are student-run clubs including Book Club, Community Book Program, Champlain Music Makers, Champlain Heritage Society, Champlain Theatre, Children’s Club, Dance Team, Drama, Improv, Historical and Literary Speakers, Intercollegiate Poetry Exchanges, Literary Readings and Writing, Lyric Theatre Company, Performance Poetry Club, Vermont Symphony Orchestra Partnership, Champlain Running Team, Champlain Parkour & Freerunning (PK/FR), Champlain Current (campus newspaper), Criminal Justice Club, Computer Networking & Information Security (CNIS), Deliberative Dialogue, Digital Forensics (DFA), Rock Climbing Club, Disney Program, E-gaming Club, Open Source/Free Software Club (FIREHOSE), Heritage Society, International Club, Ski & Ride Club, Speak Easy, Speaker Series, Student Activities Committee (CHAMP), Student Government Association (SGA), Wellness Programs, Web Radio Station, and Willard & Maple (literary magazine).There are a variety of intramural sports including Basketball, Dodgeball, Golf, Floor Hockey , Ice Hockey, Flag Football, Lacrosse, Soccer, Table Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, Wiffleball, Volleyball, XC/Road Racing, and Quidditch
Quidditch
Quidditch is a fictional sport developed by British author J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series of novels. It is described as an extremely rough, but very popular, semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches around the world...
as well as Men's Division IV
New England Rugby Football Union
The New England Rugby Football Union is a stand-alone union for rugby union teams in New England.NERFU had been a local area union , and part of the Northeast Rugby Union , which is the governing body for three LAU's The New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) is a stand-alone union for rugby...
and Women's Intercollegiate Rugby.
The Center for Service and Civic Engagement is a community service and civic engagement based club that participates in a number of activities such as Tent City (a fundraiser to raise homeless awareness and money for COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter), and the DREAM program (a mentoring program for underprivileged children).
See also
- List of colleges and universities in Vermont
- Champlain Regional CollegeChamplain Regional CollegeChamplain Regional College was founded in 1971 and named in honour of Samuel de Champlain, the first governor of New France. The College offers post-secondary pre-university , technical and training programs to communities in three distinct regions of Quebec.-History:The college was named after...
, an unrelated institution in Canada.